Artist Birthday: Osuitok Ipeelee
The native arts of the northern First Nations cultures of Canada have the same wide ranging types of art forms as those of the Indigenous cultures of the US. Osuitok Ipeelee participated in a Cana ...
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Artist Birthday: Jean-Antoine Watteau
The paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau typified the rather Baroque-lite character of French art in the first fifty years of the 1700s. After the death of Louis XIV (1715), French painting trended towar ...
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Artist Birthday: Kanō Motonobu
The Kanō School artists—the favored group of painters for the nobility and shogunate—worked in a variety of genre, including traditional yamato-e that included bright patterns and gold lea ...
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Artist Birthday: Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds was part of the important first generation of native British artists who emerged after the Baroque period (1600–1750) that was marked by a dominance by foreign—mostly Flemi ...
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Artist Birthday: James M. Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg was an artist, illustrator, and comic book artist. He is perhaps best known for his poster designs for World War I (1914–1918) in which he created by far, the most iconic ...
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Artist Birthday: Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough’s art was the epitome of the elegant, sophisticated and generally low-key Rococo style that characterized late 1700s British art. It was a major contrast to the flamboyant, o ...
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Pioneering American Woman Artist: Emma Stebbins
Considering how hard it was for women to be accepted as artists (in the United States) in the 1800s, and considering that it was frowned upon for them to attend art schools, it still amazes me how man ...
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My Amenhotep III Excitement
The typical art history dork in me skipped through an imaginary daisy field last week when I read this article about the display of artifacts from the tomb of Amenhotep III (died ca. 1354 bce) in Theb ...
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